David Hunn

Enterprise energy reporter

About this Author

David Hunn came to the Houston Chronicle in June 2016. He has since written on bankruptcies and debt loads after the 2014 oil price crash, on the boom in the Permian Basin that followed, and at length on the discovery of Houston-based Apache Corp.'s Alpine High oil and gas field in the Permian's southern Delaware Basin. Hunn previously covered government spending for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, including the $380 million renovation of the Gateway Arch grounds, the five-institution tax-payer-funded Zoo-Museum District, and the $1 billion plan to build a new football stadium on the Mississippi River, in hopes of keeping the then-St. Louis Rams in the city. Hunn grew up in California, taught English for two years to seventh-graders in the Long Beach Unified School District and has also worked for the Bakersfield Californian and Anchorage Daily News. He has won numerous awards for education reporting, was part of the Post-Dispatch’s Pulitzer-finalist team for a city hall shooting outside of St. Louis and was named a 2016 finalist in feature writing by the Society of American Business Writers and Editors.